Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Maulbeerstr, 66; CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Breast Cancer Res. 2009;11(4):305. doi: 10.1186/bcr2346. Epub 2009 Aug 14.
The inaugural European Network for Breast Development and Cancer (ENBDC) meeting on 'Methods in Mammary Gland Development and Cancer' was held in Weggis, Switzerland last April. The goal was to discuss the details of techniques used to study mammary gland biology and tumourigenesis. Highlights of this meeting included the use of four-colour fluorescence for protein co-localisation in tissue microarrays, genome analysis at single cell resolution, technical issues in the isolation of normal and tumour stem cells, and the use of mouse models and mammary gland transplantations to elucidate gene function in mammary development and to study drug resistance in breast cancer.
去年四月,首届“乳腺发育与癌症欧洲网络(ENBDC)”会议在瑞士韦吉斯召开,会议主题为“乳腺发育与癌症研究方法”。会议旨在讨论研究乳腺生物学和肿瘤发生的技术细节。本次会议的重点包括使用四色荧光技术进行组织微阵列中的蛋白质共定位分析、单细胞分辨率下的基因组分析、正常和肿瘤干细胞分离中的技术问题、以及利用小鼠模型和乳腺移植来阐明乳腺发育中的基因功能和研究乳腺癌中的药物耐药性。